Bharti Airtel has become one of the first enterprises globally to have received ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system (ISMS), across 300 locations and over 40,000 information assets. The operator has been awarded 29 ISO 27001:2005 certificates by the British Standards Institute.

According to data available in the International Register of ISMS Certificates, this is the largest number of ISO 27001:2005 certificates awarded to any single company in the world across all sectors.